Thank you VERY much. I'll take you up on that. I am going to dive into it more deeply this evening, but your help is greatly appreciated. ...

I thought of that, but was hoping there was a better way. But I'm with you, that might be the best option. Thanks again!

I've deleted the Maintenance Plan and created a new one and it generates the same error. So I'm pretty confident that it's truly the index that is the problem....